www.ecpublishing.co.uk A collaboration between a long-term Head of History and Humanities and EC Resources. We have 20 years experience teaching all humanities subjects around the UK and a particular passion for creating top-notch secondary history resources. We will be uploading loads of free lessons as well an inexpensive ones in the coming months, so why not follow us? Hopefully we can save you an afternoon or two of planning!
www.ecpublishing.co.uk A collaboration between a long-term Head of History and Humanities and EC Resources. We have 20 years experience teaching all humanities subjects around the UK and a particular passion for creating top-notch secondary history resources. We will be uploading loads of free lessons as well an inexpensive ones in the coming months, so why not follow us? Hopefully we can save you an afternoon or two of planning!
This bundle contains:
A History of Christmas lesson - this lesson covers where our traditions today have come from.
History Christmas Quiz - a fun quiz aimed at KS3.
All are easy to use or adapt for your students!
Find more free and inexpensive lessons and resources in our TES shop - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/History_Geeks
If you are happy with your resource, please leave us a review! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at historygeeksuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you.
It’s the end of term! So, you need something educational, but fun and creative to do, to keep those students occupied!
This end of term fun pack for history includes:
An hour-long History Quiz,
A ‘history of summer holidays’ special one off lesson
A Christmas-through-the-ages lesson
A free PowerPoint and template packs for making subject knowledge cubes.
A social media template pack, which can be used to create profiles for historical figures
A free end of term creative ‘make a historical figure’ history lesson.
An Easter lesson
Special Valentine’s Day love lesson
Worst Christmas Jobs lesson
Christmas Events in History Special lesson
If you are happy with your resource, please leave us a review! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at historygeeksuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you.
Check out loads more history and geography resources - both inexpensive and free at our store: HISTORY GEEKS
Or check out some Citizenship GCSE, RE, Tutor Time, PSHE + RSE new Curriculum 2020 resources at EC Resources
14 x fully resourced lesson packs - all complete with differentiated powerpoints and worksheets, clip links, starters, plenaries, LOs to three levels throughout. Designed to meet Ofsted Good-Outstanding criteria by a experienced History teacher in a UK secondary school. All lessons have been highly-rated by Tes users.
Suitable for KS3 and easy to adapt. I'm going to keep adding to this, so if you buy it check your downloads now and again as I'll have added something new :)
A detailed and well differentiated 90 min - 2 hour, editable history lesson with all about the IRA and why some people in Ireland see them as freedom fighters and others see them as terrorists. Students will investigate the crimes of the IRA before examining sources and peer assessing each other on their learning so far.
This fully resourced lesson (with PowerPoint, clips and worksheets) is editable, easy for follow and extremely comprehensive.
A Terrorism topic bundle is available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/terrorism-ks3-history-12078335
Many more history lessons - both inexpensive and free at our store: HISTORY GEEKS
If you are happy with your resource, please leave us a review! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at historygeeksuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you.
Over 20 hours of very detailed and well differentiated history lessons with a focus on 20th century conflict. This would be ideal for an upper KS3 group.
There is enough content here for one term of history lessons and the bundle includes three-way differentiated PowerPoints, source analysis packs and guidance, practice GCSE exam style questions, loads of clip and questions activities, homework, literacy focus tasks - everything you need to teach outstanding history lessons and training your classes up ready for History GCSE. Some lessons are doubles.
Each lesson pack is tried and tested by a history UK department and is editable, engaging and full of content.
A 7 hour unit (6 lessons, one is a double) covering the Reformation and the religious turmoil (and more) in Tudor Times. Everything is editable, contains detailed PowerPoints and accompanying worksheets, and is ready to go.
Included:
What was the Reformation, why did it happen?
How was Henry VIII involved in the Reformation, why did he change the Church?
What can we learn from sources about Henry VIII’s reign?
Does Mary Tudor deserve her name, ‘Bloody Mary’? Why?
What happened with Elizabeth I’s reign? Why did she kill her cousin?
An overview of the religious turmoil in Tudor Times (includes Edward’s reign).
Who are EC Resources?
EC Resources are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Bank of England, The Children’s Commissioner, MACS Charity, The British Legion, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK.
2 HOURS - Bloody Mary I / Mary Tudor and her reign - A detailed and interesting lesson focusing on whether or not Bloody Mary Tudor (Queen Mary I) deserves her nickname or whether history has judged her too harshly. This lesson allows students to delve into a plethora of sources and evaluate for themselves whether or not Mary should rightfully be called ‘Bloody’. Practice exam style questions, clip questions and debate task all in the PowerPoint too and accompanying worksheets included.
The lesson will last up to two hours and is detailed, editable and suitable for KS3.
The download includes: a detailed PowerPoint, differentiated tasks, a variety of activities, clip tasks, exam-style practice plenary, peer teaching tasks and more.
It’s very easy to follow and can be used straight away :)
This bundle includes 11 lessons covering the Cold War, and Terrorism:
Cold War
Introduction to the Cold War
Soviet Expansion
Berlin Blockade
Cuban Missile Crisis
Vietnam War
Terrorism
Types of terrorism
Radicalisation
Suffragettes
IRA
Israel and Palestine
Al Qaeda
The download includes all lesson powerpoints (containing all activity tasks, clip links etc), worksheets and information sheets. All lessons are easy to use and editable. All activities are differentiated 3 ways where possible.
All these lessons are also available individually and as topic bundles here:
Cold War: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-cold-war-12192363
Terrorism: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/terrorism-ks3-history-12078335
Genocide: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/genocide-12114524
You can find many more history lessons - both inexpensive and free at our store: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/History_Geeks
If you are happy with your resource, please leave us a review! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at historygeeksuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you.
9 HOURS - A mini unit of 9 x 1 hour lessons on the Cold War. Includes:
An introduction to the Cold War
Stalin and his leadership
The Atomic Bomb
The Berlin Blockade
Soviet expansion, tactics and consequences
The Vietnam War
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The My Lai Massacre
Chairman Mao and his leadership
Each lesson includes a detailed PowerPoint with accompanying worksheets, source analysis, GCSE-style question practice, clip questions and differentiated activities, starter sheets and much more. Created by an experienced HoD in a UK secondary school.
Who are EC Resources?
EC Resources are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Bank of England, The Children’s Commissioner, MACS Charity, The British Legion, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK.